Advanced Modes Filters. Crazy Idea? Or is it?

[milandro]

I have to admit ignorance on this and declare that I don’t even know if this has been done by anyone else or if it would be feasible but bear with me ( or be patient, I am not up to speed with all the cameras on the market!)

 

 

 

One of the problems of shooting landscapes is, more often than not, the fact that some shots do call for the use of some sort of graduated filter.

 

If you have ever used one you know that they are a pain in the (....................), write here whatever part of the body that it bothers you the most!

 

They can be expensive, clumsy, and often reveal themselves to be purple in pictures while they look grey when we buy them.

 

Rectangular filters need  more or less complicated and expensive holders and if you own a large lens, such as the 10-24 they are expensive and complicated to use (on a windy and drizzly day with an extralarge bellows to avoid reflections? I don’t think so)

 

Circular graduated fiter are ok for price and usability but, at the very most you can rotate them but you cannot change the height  where the graduated effect will be taking place.

 

So, I was wondering.

 

Since we can make the graduated effect in post production but it takes a bit of time  to do it...

 

Couldn’t Fuji add this to the advanced (!) filters?

 

In other words.

 

Could we have a mode where we could decide the graduated ( ND or coloured) effect filtering of one section of the image establishing a point of start (mark) and a level of exposure reduction ( and colour)?

 

Now, if this regulation would be possible. Could we apply the same concept to the “ miniature” mode and decide, in camera, where the blurring of this “ effect” would take place?